100 Cleanest Packaged Food Awards 2013

When browsing the grocery store shelves, it can be hard to tell which packaged foods are actually good for you. How can an organic sauce contain so much sodium and added sugar? And is that really oil in your butter?

Packaged foods are sneaky. That’s why we put together Eat Clean 2013: Prevention's 100 Cleanest Packaged Food Awards, where we reveal the best, healthiest, and cleanest boxed and bagged foods on the market. Your trusty editors and our favorite experts ate our way through mountains of food in search of the most nutritious, delicious choices with the cleanest ingredients. Curious about what it took to get on this list?

Must not contain GMO ingredients. (Brownie points to those bearing the “Non-GMO Project Verified Seal”, which denotes foods that have been vetted through the non-profit Non-GMO Project, America’s only third party verification for products produced according to rigorous best practices for GMO avoidance.)

Must have no more than 10 g of added sugar

Must have less than 200 mg of sodium per serving (or 400 mg for meals)

All cans must be free of BPA

All fish must be sustainable, according to Monterey Bay Aquarium seafood criteria

All foods had to be absolutely delicious

You can browse by meal, by food category, and even by special (and important to you) criteria, such as certified organic, gluten-free, high-fiber, and more. Get ready for 100 of the cleanest foods you’ve ever seen, all conveniently packaged for your guilt-free eating pleasure.